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On 12/14/06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Ok, this is useful; it sounds like 'man bash' is in fact leaving the
> bold attribute turned on incorrectly. Aaron, in your case your prompt
> does not clear the attribute; I assume "printf '\033[0m'" fixes things?

It does indeed.

> Does this only happen with the bash manpage, or do you see it with other
> manpages as well?

It seems to vary.  I see it with 'man vim' and 'man printf' after the
first screen, for instance, but not with 'man man', unless I pick just
the right line.  Which makes it seem less likely that it's a problem
with the man page formatting.  In all the cases which cause the
problem, the last bit of text on the screen is highlighted, but it
shouldn't be.

> Btw, what versions of groff and less do you have installed? Also, what
> is the output of 'man -d bash' (just the part after 'not executing
> command:', please)?

less is 381-1, as I listed previously; groff is 1.18.1-2.  The output
you're after is, I presume:

  (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat
'/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1
-mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR)

Interesting.  Where does the '.pl 11i' bit come from?  It's not in
man.conf...is it hardcoded, or hiding in my environment somewhere?

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